After years of being demonized by government actors and the
prevaricating press for standing up as a patriot and
demanding a return to the principles which founded our
nation, I find myself surrounded by banners of red white
and blue. Where did all this patriotic fervor come from?
No, it wasn't another car lot trying to get my attention.

I've lost friends because they don't want to know about the
dark side of government. Along with many fellow
pre 9-11 patriots, I have been labeled a constitutionalist
and an anti-government extremist. They demonize the
messengers when they have no answer to the truths we
expose.

We are shunned and avoided by many Americans who don't want
their fragile belief system challenged. They know things
aren't right in government, but it is safer and more
comfortable to look away. My dedication to exposing the
false trepidations of government and my advocacy of our
nations founding principles has made me an enemy in the
eyes of some of my fellow countrymen.

So what is the new patriot a patriot of? Do
they understand the powers and limitations that the
Constitution conveys to government? How many have ever read
the Bill of Rights? Do these new flag-waving patriots
really have any clues about what is going on in this
country?

Have they ever questioned where that ocean of acronyms; the
sea of agencies for every purpose finds the authority for
their existence and presumed power? Do they see the
absolute rush to power, going on before their very eyes?
Are they willing to seek the whole truth and prepare for
it, as Patrick Henry was?

Or are they covering their eyes with their newly unfurled
flags?

And what do we have to guide us as we seek the truth? Dan
Blather, Peterless Jennings and Tom Brokenjaw? The AP
(Always Prevaricating) Wire service? Will another
seven-second soundbyte on CNN tell us the whole truth? The
media is a weapon of mass distraction and this weapon is
used daily in the war against truth.

Over and over, the newsmakers, pundits and politicians tell
us how great our country is. The land of freedom. Liberty
and justice for all. Hollow words for most of the 2 million
souls incarcerated in America. Private prisons are a growth
industry, trading well on Wall Street, while Enron
executives go free.

An estimated one third of prisoners are innocent or failed
to be provided with legitimate due process of law in the
course of their conviction. Sixty per cent of
our prisoners committed no harm to another person or their
property in the commission of their crime.
Criminals, only because their crimes were
manufactured by the socialist, totalitarian state.

The constitutional writ of habeus corpus is now effectively
suspended by an unaccountable judiciary. Appeals courts are
more concerned with making sure we are no longer one nation
under God, than protecting the rights of Americans from
injustice. The Department of Justice has become self funded
by forfeitures seized without due process of law in the
War on the Bill of Rights.

Why? Because officers of government take an oath to support
the Constitution, but there is no enforcement. Instead, an
unlegislated cloak of immunity protects the criminals in
office from the justice that they and the citizen they have
wronged deserve. What can the people do to put the bite
back in the Constitution? Petition the harlots in Congress
for impeachments?

What remedy is left but the teeth of the Second Amendment.
By all current evidence, there is no militia enforcing the
Constitution. Our free state, is no longer
secured. And our children's future grows dim, as the shadow
government emerges with each freedom trampling lockstep to
the Homeland Defense forces.

And what has government already accomplished in
our homeland? An administrative dictatorship of
unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats that have become our
masters, with their self promulgated rules imposed as the
law of the land. We slaves on the federal plantation are
numbered, tracked and taxed a half share of all that we
earn for the benefit of obtaining such
servitude. These shadow governors have become so emboldened
by our compliance that they actually call themselves a
shadow government.

All ten planks of the Communist Manifesto are fully
implemented in America. No longer can we own property.
Color of title deeds cloud any real ownership. The
possession and use of our homes and property is subject to
regulation, permits and a rent called taxes.

Neither can we own a car in America. The original title to
a vehicle must be surrendered to the state by a state
licensed, enfranchised car dealer. A certificate of title
is issued to the user of the vehicle which shows that the
state is the holder of the real title. The user of the
vehicle is deluded by popular notions into thinking he
owns the vehicle which became a state owned
utility soon after it was purchased. We are
then subjected to all manner of unconstitutional searches,
seizures and statutory offenses because we travel in a
state-owned vehicle.

And now they propose to further control our movements with
a programmable, chip-embedded driver's license. Federally
mandated, this has the potential to become the control card
for all of our government benefits, financial
transactions, travel and communications, health care and
our daily buying and selling -- the ultimate tool for
citizen tracking and control.

What do we have for an economy? A NON-Federal, NON-Reserve,
NON Note. Our dollar is only backed by blind
faith and the ability to tax. However correct they are, the
tax honesty movement will never be allowed to prove the
fraudulent, unconstitutional nature of the IRS. The Federal
Reserve dollar would evaporate back to the thin
air from which it came without the IRS.

The powers which control this country cannot allow our
fraudulent monetary system to change. Of the power, by the
power and for the power is what governs behind the scenes.
Does anyone really believe the president runs this country?
Think of him as a press secretary for the elite. He tells
us what the real governors want us to hear.

The message is clear. Terrorism, terrorism, terrorism is
our 24-7 media mantra. After a single event last September,
we continue to be hammered daily with news of the next
threat. Evidence suggests that the CIA and the
FBI had advance knowledge of the events of September 11 but
failed to prevent those acts.

Negligence or complicity? Societal manipulation through
trauma based conditioning? Whether planned by them or
merely convenient, the goals of the power elite were well
served by the events of 9-11.

Why were we attacked last September? Could it
be the CIA holocaust? Over six million people have died as
a result of our shadow governors' covert operations to
manipulate and control the world. Their lives are strewn in
shallow graves around the globe as the CIA has made the
world safe and profitable for corporate interests.

America has become the world's policeman, sending our
military to all corners of the world. Was the Pentagon
targeted because some people on this planet don't want to
live under an American-led global police state? Were the
twin towers of the financial manipulators targeted for
their scorched earth policies of global economic tyranny?

Oh ye new found patriots, what part of our precious
Constitution authorizes the government to send our military
or covert manipulators into foreign lands? Our military,
kept at home where they belong and an honest foreign policy
is the only homeland defense we need.

Many Americans dare not question authority at this time as
we endure our country's most awful moments. The truth would
cause them to lower their flags in shame. Instead, they
wave their flags to the repetitive sound of the media's
drumbeat. The American dog has been wagged to the command
of roll over and beg for security. Our Constitution is
suspended and we are expected to surrender what little is
left of our liberties.

This new patriotism seems to be more about continuing a
lifestyle of self-indulgence than standing on principle.
United we stand? For what? A foreign policy of
terrorism, exploitation and economic tyranny? A domestic
policy that is much the same? All so we can live the good
life, with a
give-me-more-for-less-never-mind-where-it-comes-from
attitude?

Generations of complacent subjugation have sealed our fate.
We stand united on the deck of a slowly sinking
Titanic nation. Ask yourself, do I avoid the hard fight
that is before us now if we want our country back? Do I
fall instead into the bottomless pit of convenient
consumption? The few, the brave and the proud are few and
far between.

Go ahead, wave your Made-in-China U.S. flag. Sing a
patriotic song. Placate your fears with more shopping.
After all, it's your America. Try and forget that like a
herd of lemmings, we are diving head first into a sea of
totalitarianism. Join the new found patriots
that are marching in a media-induced lockstep.

The banners of freedom have been unfurled to maintain the
illusion. But they are waving in the same thin air our
money is made from. The politics of fear,
managed with perpetual terrorism alerts, govern us now.

By definition, a patriot needs a country to which one may
be patriotic. America has a proud history, but the American
nation promised by the Constitution is nowhere to be seen.
Look for yourself and, in the absence of your lost country,
ask yourself, of what am I a patriot?

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Rather than pay a $300 fine for allegedly skinny dipping,
Hari Heath challenged the U.S. government's authority on
unceded state lands administered by the U.S. Forest
Service. In the federal court of the infamous Judge Edward
Lodge, Heath was sentenced to serve six months in jail and
two years of probation for challenging federal authority on
state land without a trial. Heath became a fugitive in
Dec., 2000. The article above was a well-justified
rant. Maybe you have to be sentenced hard for
alleged skinny dipping without the benefit of a trial to
understand that to be allegiant to this government is not
very patriotic.